Snapshot - October 2024

The Lakeshore Rd. bridge was a good place to be standing on October 7, 2024. I was able to catch a EB CP and CN freight at the same moment passing by...a rare occasion.

I was away to eastern Ontario or at least east of Toronto for a few days. I spent two mornings at an old wooden bridge near Newtonville. The location is Lakeshore Rd where the CN goes under a wooden bridge and the CP crosses at grade in the middle of CP's Lovekin siding. 

A railfan friend John Allen who travels east of Toronto a lot told me that there is not a lot of CP action in daylight in this area so I felt really luck to catch a CP EB and a CN EB at the same time on the Lakeshore Rd bridge. The CN train had a BC unit leading to boot. I doubt I will see this ever happen again. It was great to see. The CP freight had a extra unit at about the middle of its train.

The lighting at this location is great for eastbound trains but really not great shooting to the west, but from the bridge you can kind of shoot down at an angle.

There were two others that showed up at the bridge for a photo of the BC unit...they already knew it was coming. They went down below to get a shot of the train coming under the bridge but I am too old to be crawling down those banks. They actually missed the chance to catch both trains crossing at the same time. I found it interesting that both were quite young, the one seen in the shorts was 17 who took the morning off school using his moms car to get here for this photo. He also was a modeler...good to see youth interested in model trains. He wants to be a heavy equipment mechanic maybe working on locomotives at some point...George Dutka

The CN EB this day had a BC Rail engine leading.

The two railfans that joined me on the bridge before the arrival of the train. They both headed down below for a shot of the CN EB coming through the bridge. Once the freight train was gone so too was the railfans...guess they see their fill of passenger trains.